World Youth Day 2016

The XXXI. World Youth Day ( Polish Dni Światowe Młodzieży; Abbreviation: WYD) the Roman Catholic Church to be held in July 2016 in Cracow. The announcement was made on July 27, 2013 as part of the closing ceremony of the XXVIII. World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro by Pope Francis. It is after World Youth Day 1991 in Czestochowa, the second World Youth Day in Poland.

Significance of John Paul II

The inventor of the World Youth Days, Blessed Pope John Paul II, from 1964 up to his election in 1978 bishop of the Archdiocese of Kraków. Pope Francis called him, in a message to the diocesan World Youth Day 2014 as the " great [n ] Patron of World Youth Days [ ... ] whose initiator and spiritual engine, he was. "

The former private secretary Stanisław Cardinal Dziwisz of the Polish Pope directs the diocese since 2005 and together with the Pontifical Council for the Laity host and organizer of World Youth Day.

Topic

The World Youth Day in Krakow, as provided the two local World Youth Days in the preceding years, a word of Beatitudes from the Sermon on the Mount. For the World Youth Day 2016 is the motto:

Blessed are the merciful; for they shall obtain mercy (Matthew 5.7 EU).

Already in Rio de Janeiro Pope Francis had asked the youth to re-read the Beatitudes and to act accordingly.

In 2016 the town hosts the 1050 th anniversary of the Baptism of Poland. Whether the Pope on this occasion next to Krakow also visit other cities as the Marian shrine of Czestochowa, is not yet confirmed.

Date and places

The World Youth Day to be held from 26th to 31st July 2016. In the previous week to the day take place in the dioceses in which the pilgrims are housed in the parishes of the 43 other Polish dioceses. Presumably, the closing Mass will be celebrated on Planty meadows where already John Paul II and Benedict XVI. large fairs celebrated. Other major events are to be held in football stadiums to Wisla Stadium (Wisła Kraków ) and Józef Piłsudski Stadium (KS Cracovia ). Meanwhile, the spiritual preparation has begun for World Youth Day.

Reactions to the venue Krakow

In Poland, there were joyful reactions. Cardinal Dziwisz said: "Holy Father, we wait for you and your young friends from all over the world."

Father Stefan Dartmann SJ, CEO of Renovabis, solidarity action of the German Catholics with the people of Central and Eastern Europe spoke of a " tribute to the inventor" of World Youth Day Pope John Paul II, whose canonization is imminent. He hopes that a greater awareness of the social problems in Central and Eastern Europe. But Krakow is a " city in the heart of Europe", this would strongly moved back into focus by the World Youth Day.

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